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The experience is far more pleasing than wandering through 

 the monotonous pine forests of New Brunswick, where every 

 turn in the far-reaching Miramiche or Nepissiguit looks like 

 the last, and the inevitable porcupine is found rooting at the 

 foot of every jack-pine where you camp. 



Nevertheless, New Brunswick is a delectable land, traversed 

 as it is by interminable water-courses, which interlace at 

 their sources, and offer no end of canoe-routes, whereby one 

 may travel for summer after summer without covering the 

 same ground twice. And here again we have not only 

 McMillan's old reliable map of the Province, but a brand-new 

 map, recently published in Boston, prepared from the .notes 

 of an enthusiastic canoe-man, who gives all the routes, port- 

 ages, and good fishing-places that are contained within a wide 

 district. Here in this forest land is the noble Restigouche, 

 famed among Salmon rivers all over the world, with its one 

 hundred and forty miles of length, and sixty miles of good 

 Salmon hshing. And here, too, are its four great branches, 

 the Metapedia, Patapedia, Upsalquitch, and Tom Kedgewick, 

 almost equally prolific and desirable, all of them leased and 

 fished by the magnates of the Dominion and the nobility of 

 England. In these rivers the Salmon run up to seventy 

 pounds in weight, and the annual commercial catch is some- 

 thing fabulous. It is said that a million and a half of pounds 

 of Canadian Salmon pass into the New York market every 

 year, and of this amount the Restigouche system furnishes 

 four-fifths! There are other rivers on the Boie des Chaleurs 

 beside the Restigouche which furnish giant Salmon, and 

 among them the grand Cascapediae is notable. I once saw 

 five Salmon taken out of this river with fly by ex-President 

 Arthur and Mr. R. G. Dun, which weighed fifty-five pounds 

 each — all in one outing. Indeed, it may be said that all 

 these rivers of the Bay, being long-visited and of great reputa- 

 tion, and quite accessible withal, are the grand' fluvial prizes 

 to be contended for at Quebec when the leases are up for 



